The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-01-14

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mind and soul, and withdraw your name
| from Christian churches and say; "Know
| all ths world BY these presents that I am
q patron OF hhcleanness and 8 child Of
hell" Sworn to be the Lordss you are
| periurers
But at last the tide has turned, and the
despisers Of purity overdid the matter. A
foreign actress of base morals arrived, in
tending to make the tour of the States, but
the remaining decency of our cities rose Hp
| and Cancelled the contracts, and drove her
back from our American stage-a woman
fit for neither Continent In the name of
Almighty God take these denominations by
the throat If you think these offsnses are
to go on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is. God will not wait for the day of
Judgment. All these palaces of sin will
b66UnnS palace Of righteousness. They
will come Into Che possession of those
strong for virtue and strong for God. He
shall divide the spoil with the strong"
China and Africa, the two richest por-
tions OF the earth by reason of metals and
rare woods and inexhaustible productive
ness, are not yet divided up among the
good because they are not ready to be dl-
Vided. Wait until the doors that Living
stonS openSd in Africa shall be entered,
and Bishop Taylor with his band OF self
supporting missionaries have done their
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ans shall know Christ as well as you know
Him, and there shall be on the banks OF
the Nile and the Niger higher civilization
than is now to be found on the banks of
the Hudson, then Christ will divide up the
continent among His friends.
Wait until China, Which is half as large
as all Europe, shall have developed her ca
pacities for rice, tea and sugar among sdf-
b1es and her amethyst, and sapphire, and
topaz, and opal, and jaspar, and porhyry
among precious stones and her rosewood,
and ebony, and camphor, and gsrHish trees
among precious woods; and turned up freHa
her depths half dozen Pennsylvanlas Of
coal and iron, and twenty Nevadas OF sill
yer, and fifty CALIFORNIA; Of gold and her
300, 100000 of people shall be evangelized-
then the Lord viii divide it up among the
good.
If my text be not deception, but an
eternal truth, then the time is coming
whed sll the farms will be owned by
Christian farmers; and all the commerce
controlled by Christian merchants, and all
the authority held by Christian officials,
and all the ships commanded by Christian
Captains, and all the universities under the
Instructors of Christian professors,
Christian Kings, Christian Presidents,
Christian Governors, Christian Mayors,
Christian Common Council. Yet, what q
securing outt What an upturningl what
demolitionl what a resurrsc ction, must
precede this new apportionmenti
/ do not underrate the enemy. julius
Caesar got his greatest victories by fully
estimating the Vastness of his foes and
prepared his men for their greatest triumph
by saying: Tomorrow King Juba will be
here with 80, 900 horses, 100, 900 slKirmishers
and 300 elephants" do not underrate
the vast forces of sin and death, but do you
lrnn hn nd nGI q ab-.Ti
And the reserve corps behind us are all
the armies of Heaven and earth, with huIz
ricane and thunderbolt. The good work of
the worlds redemption is going on every
minute. Never SO many noble men and
glorious women on the side of right as to-
day. Never so many good people as now.
Diogenes has been spoken of as a wise
man because he went with a lantern at
MONDAY, saying he was looking for an
honest man. If he had turned his lantern
toward himself he might have discovered a
crank.
Honest men by the ten tbousandi
Through the international series of Sun
day-schooI lessons the next generation all
through ChristendOm are going to be wiser
than any generation since the world stood.
The kingdom is coming. God can do it.
No housewife with chamois cloth ever
polished a silver teaspoon with more ease
than Christ will rub off from this world
the tarnish and brighten it up till it gloWs
like Heaven, and then the glorious appor-
tionment, for my text is REINFORCED by
score Of other texts, when it says of
Christ: ''He shall divide the spoil with the
strong"
But" you say, "that is pleasant to
think of for others, but before that time /
shall have passed up into another existence,
and shall get no advantage from this new
apportionment." All, you have only driven
me to the more exciting and transporting
consideration, and that is that Christ is
going to divide up Heaven in the same way.
There are old estates in the celestial world
that have been in the possession of its in
habitants for thousands Of years, and they
shall remain as they are. There are old
family mansions in Heaven filled with
whole generations of kindred, and they
shall never be driven out. Many of the
victOrs from earth have already got their
palaces, and they are pointed to those
newly arrived. Soon after our getting
there we will ask to be shown the apostolic
residences, and ask where does Paul live,
and John, and shown the patriarchal resi-
dences, and shall say: "Where does Abra-
ham live, or Jacob?" and shown the mar
tyr residences and say: Where does John
Huss live, and Ridleyl" We will want TO
see the boulevards where the chariots Of
conquerors roll. I will want to see the
gardens where the Princes walked.
We will want to see Music Row, where
Handel, and Haydn and Mozart, and
Charles Wesley, and Thomas Hastings,
and Bradbury, have their homes, out Of
their windows, ever and anon, rolling some
sonnet of an earthly oratorio or hymn
transported with the composer. We viii
want to see Revival Terrace, where White
field, and Nettleton, and Payson, and Row
land Hill, and Charles Finney, and other
giants of soul reaping, are resting from
their almost supernatural labors, their
doors thronged with converts Just ar
rived, coming to report themselves.
But brilliant as the sunset, and like the |
leaves for number, are the celestial homes !
yet to be awarded, when Christ to you, and !
millions of others, shall divide the spoil |
w hat do you want therel You shall have /
it. An orchard4 There it is; twelve man
ner of fruit, and fruit every MONTH |
Do you want river scenery7 Take your /
choice on the banks of the river, in /
longer, wider, deeper roll than Danube, or |
Amazon, or Mississippi, if mingled in enc, +
and emptying into the sea Of glass, mini gIed ]
with FIRE. Do you want your kindred back /
againl Go out and meet your father and /
mother, without the staff or stoop, and your 1
children in dance of immortal Rlee Do 1
you want throno7 Select it from the mill
on FURNISHED elevations. DO you want a /
,rown4 Pick it out Of that mountain Of /
diamond coronets. Do you want your old /
;hurch friends of earth around youl Begin
20 hum an old revival tune and they will
lock from all quarters to revel with you in
,acred reminiscence. All the earth for
hose who are here on earth at the time Of
continental and planetary distribution, and
III the heavens for those who are there.
That Heavenly distribution Of spoils will
% surprise to many. Here enters Heaven
he soul of a man who took up great deal
Il room on earth, but sacrificed little, and
Imong his good works selhshness was evf-
lent. He just crowds through the shining
rate, but tits very tight squeeze, 80 that
he door keeper has 70 pull away TO get him
n and fFfa man nwwaoFa half of /